9 Free Online CSS Sprite Generator

We have already discussed How to use CSS sprites and How to add image hover effect using CSS sprites. Both the tutorial requires manual work and now, this time, I’m going to share some online CSS sprite generator which will help you to generate CSS sprites online.

Why do we need online Sprite generator?

Anyone, who have a website, and you are serious about it; CSS sprites will be very useful for faster loading of your site. We have already shared how to create CSS sprites manually, but everyone is not as good in coding and in such cases these online CSS Sprite generator tool, will be very handy to create sprites quickly.

Advantages & disadvantages of using CSS Sprites Generator:

The IDEA behind CSS sprites is very genius. For those who does not know about CSS sprites, CSS sprites group multiple images into one big image and display them using CSS background positioning. This helps in decreasing no. of concurrent connections, and your site will be faster:

A single big image uses less bandwidth as compared to various smaller ones.

Less images ==Less HTTP requests = faster loading overall

The only disadvantage of using CSS sprites is that it does not work consistently in all browsers like IE and Opera, Chrome and Firefox are more close to the standards. Though, if you don’t care about outdated IE browsers, you need not need to worry much. A bit of CSS tweak can make your complete code cross-browser compatible.

This is fairly simple but powerful online CSS Sprites generator tool, lets you to create simple CSS Sprites Images.
This tool allows you to upload multiple files and generate a sprite out of them. It also gives you the CSS code (the background-position value) for each image in the sprite.

When invoked, SpriteMe automatically identifies potential images to be grouped into a sprite, gives you one-click sprite creation through csscoolrunnings.com and re-inserts the new sprite into your site on the fly for testing.

[1]Percentage of people using IE or opera is very less …and the percentage decreases if you have a tech blog.
[2]Sprites are beneficial for blog such as shoutmeloud with large traffic…It could decrease bandwidth …..
[3]and good for seo.

Depending upon which factor is significant in your case ,you can choose whether to choose sprites or not

You can generate sprites by entering a website URL and it will take images from CSS and IMG tags to generate a sprite for you. Of course you can also just upload images if you wish, but it’s 100% free. I use it all the time.